Dollar Sign Variables

[Peter Haworth]

One way to see variable contents when in debug mode is to hover the mouse
over a variable name - a tooltip with its contents appears.  Only
discovered that a couple of weeks ago.

Pete
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On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 12:36 PM, <dunbarx at aol.com> wrote:

> Richmond.
>
>
> So if I see an egregious typo, like:
>
>
> putt myVar into someOtherVar
>
>
> then I do what you do.
>
>
> But you never, really never, had to follow the contents of a variable
> while stepping through a script? Never mind when debugging due to an error,
> but rather just to see if your plan was sound?
>
>
> I remember in the movie "Amadeus", when Salieri was told by Mozart's wife
> that he made no fair copies of his work, and Salieri, crushed, realized he
> simply wrote down "the music he heard in his head".
>
>
> Craig
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com>
> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
> Sent: Tue, Feb 11, 2014 3:28 pm
> Subject: Re: Dollar Sign Variables
>
>
> On 11/02/14 22:24, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> > On 2/11/14, 12:38 PM, dunbarx at aol.com wrote:
> >> WHAT!!??!!! WHAAAAT????
> >>
> >>
> >> The first time? How, how is that possible? I have never used
> >> "revXMLEndTree". But the debugger?
> >
> > I was wondering the same thing. How in the world does one program
> > without the debugger?
> >
> > Jaw dropped.
> >
>
> Dunno. Managed it for about 39 years without one.
>
> And RR/LC for the last 12 years.
>
> As I said earlier: every time I run a script and it has a problem the
> scriptEditor opens up with a jolly yellow blob exactly where the problem
> is,
> and I "piss about" until it stops doing that.
>
> Richmond.
>
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